The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-10-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

America.
EDWARD HANLAN, the oarfman, has ar
rived at Sydney, N. S. w. His passage
was exceedingly rough, and he suffered
considerably from sea-sickness. He looked
very thin and worn. His arrival in Aus
tralia was without any demonstration OF
any kind.
INFORMATION has been received at the
Office of the Surgeon General of the Marine
Hospital Service to the effect that the
yellow fever epidemic at Key West, Fla,
is practically at an end. No new cases
had been reported during the week and
only one death had occurred.
THE attempt of two union sailors to COM
pei q non-union man to stop work on the
barge Michigan, at Milwaukee, Wis, on
the odd resulted in a shooting ARRAY, in
which Fred Pagel, one of the aggressors,
was shot, probably fatally, by Andrew
Bieme, one of the Michigan's crew.
THE rumor that Ex-Governor Jarvis of
North Carolina, who Is at present Minister
compete with Mr.. Ransom for the United
States senatorship has been revived.
THE "anti- YANKEES" spirit is cropping
out bitterly in the tone of some Of the City
of Mexico newspapers.
ABOUT two hundred and fifty Anarch-
lists met in Cleveland, o., on the night of
the odd and protested against the execu-
ton of the seven condemned Chicago An
archists. They spoke in German and were
in favor of blood if ever thing else failed.
THE international conference at Carries
ruhe of the Red Cross Association was
opened on the 22d in the presence of the
Grand Duke of Baden. Count Won Stol-
berg Wernigerode was elected president
Mr.. Hubbel, of America, is among the
presidents.
THE reunion of the blue and gray at
Evansville, Ind, was concluded on the
Odd.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN's trial was begun at
Mitchellstown Ireland, on the 23d.
GRovENHURsT, a Canadian village, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire on the
Odd.
A STATE of anarchy is reported as exist
ing at Stanley Falls, in the Congo coun-
try.
GENERAL DODGE, General Fremont and
General Ewing testified before the Pacific
Railway Investigation Commission at
New York on the 23d.
WILLIAM SHOWERS, Of Reading, Pa,
confesses to the murder of his two grand.
children He duplicates Betsey Sergeant,
his betrOthed, in the crime.
JOHN KERNAHAN was hanged at San
Francisco on the 23d for the murder of his
sister-in-law, Martha Ann Hood, in Octo-
Der, 1885.
ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
THOMPSON on the 23d purchased Govern.
ment bonds to the amount of $l,S35, $50;
applications for prepayment of interest
amounts to date TO 1912, $50.
THOMAS MCKEYNA, a laboring man
sixty-seven years of age, brutally muir.
dered his wife at their home in McKees-
port, Pa, on the morning of the 23d. She
was sleeping at the time. He first struck
her on the head with an axe and then
buried a knife in her heart.
JOHN M. ScHURLER, who murdered his
infant child at Binghamton, N. ", two
years ago, was sentenced on the 23d to be
hanged at Cooperstown on November 10
GENERAL JAMES B. RICKETTS,, the com
mander of the famous Ricketts, battery
died at his home in Washington on the
22d, from the effects of wounds received
during the war. He served during the
Mexican and civil wars, and in the latter
organized the famous battery. He alst
served on the Northern frontier during tn,
Canadian troubles during 1S39-I0.
The semi.centennial fair celebration al
Lyons, n. Y, on the 23d, was accounted
the most marked in the history of tn,
place. The distinguished visitors includ
ed United States Senator John Sherman
After the procession Senators Sherman
and HiscOck held a reception at the Fai
grounds. A banquet was given to the dis
tinguished visitors by the business men o
the place in the evening.
MAX WE'LL, twenty-seven years old,
clerk, who had been boarding with Mrs
Henrietta Schacke, in New York, invited
the landlady's son on the night of tn,
22d to go with him to the Lords suppe
and meet the crowned heads of Europe
Mrs. Schacke, fearing that he was insane
had him arrested.
AT Middletown, o., on the 23d, Johi
Glendenning, while intoxicated, shot ant
killed John Nolan and then shot himself
dying an hour later The cause of shoot
ing was an old grudge.
| DR.. HAMILTON, Surgeon. General of tn
Marine Hospital Service, says that tn
arrival of single ship at New York in
tested with Asiatic cholera need not Civ
occasion for alarm. In his judgment tn
health officer at New York will be able t
handle the cases at quarantine withou
| difficulty.
APPLICATIONS for prepayment of in
terest on $4,000 registered bonds wer
received at the Treasury in Washington
on the oath, making a total to date O
500 So, $50.
MINISTER DENNY, our representative i
China, says that one of the chief Imped
ments to the opening of new branches @
trade with the Chinese is the ignorance @
our manufacturers and producers of tn
needs and tastes OF the Chinese.
THE passengers who arrived on tn
steamship Alesia, which was found t
have cholera on board, will be kept i
strict quarantine until all danger of in
lection is past.
REPORTS from every pap of the countr,
on the oath told of delegations of Gran
Army men moving toward st. Louis to al
| fond the annual aucor,,,,ovt g..